Jay here! A lot of you have written to say you wish you could be at ECCC this weekend. We can’t bring you with us, but hopefully we can give you at least a virtual window (and try a new X-periment on the blog) with a show diary!
Today we:
- Drove up to Seattle from Portland
- Dropped party stuff off–and picked up a few books–at the super awesome Phoenix Comics
- Got our badges and worked out our table set-up! We are experimenting with more vertical arrangements this time, since we’ve only got half a table, and it is a little terrifying. Also, I broke the vase our sign goes in, but was able to repair it with a whooooole lot of duct tape.
- Got David from the airport. It’s his first time in the U.S.! We went to a restaurant with $5 martinis and very okay barbecue and compared national stereotypes and were generally pretty excited about finally meeting after most of a decade of being Internet friends!
- Bought groceries. Grocery shopping for cons is always super weird–by the time we get to the store, we’re tired and fuzzy, and it turns into a sort of surreal vacation-like fugue state. This time, we spent a lot of time looking at Spider-Man toys, then mostly bought granola bars, because we are boring adults.
- Finally got into the place where we’re staying. We’re crashing at a friend’s place while she’s out of town, and her locks are suuuuuuper sticky, so there was some frantic messaging and experimenting, and I was briefly extremely worried that someone would think I was trying to break in. BUT WE DID IT, and we figured out the trick to mostly maybe making the outdoor key work. Kind of. We hope.
- AND NOW WE ARE IN BED. Oh! And listener BLL, who works at Lush, sent us a ridiculously amazing package of fancy bath-type stuff, which we then forgot to try, but we brought it with us! And I am totally going to try at least a few things every day that we’re here, because it all smells amazing. (I am a creature of capital-H Habit, and am baffled and intimidated by fancy bath products, but BLL included both a detailed guide and a bunch of X-Men references, so I am ON TOP OF THIS.)
PHOTOS FOR YOU:
Have a fun time kiddies!
Met David (albeit briefly) at the London Super Comic Con this year and he seemed a pretty awesome chap, so take good care of him, we need him back in one piece…. more or less. 😉
(I have no comment as such, but seeing as there’s no way to really leave a simple ‘like’ to show that I really like this diary thingie, I leave this. Because it’s awesome hearing about this Con I can’t go to)
Really wish I could be there but alas i have to stay home and work. Mairghread is tabling about two tables down from you though at H-17 so hopefully she’ll get a chance to say hi. Have a great show! ~Jason E
We’ll miss you, too!! Let us know if you want us to send any goodies back with M!
That speech bubble is tops!!